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Good morning, Wisconsin.

Morning, world.

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Thanks for kicking it off with us at WFHR.

Got your host, James Bond, and Mike will join by our head of production.

Our co-hosts set to have Hacker.

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And the best listeners and radio.

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Good morning, everybody.

Let's kick things off the way we like to with our friend, Brittany Merlot, talk a little

mother nature.

Good morning, Brett.

Good morning.

How are you doing?

I'm doing good here, right?

A little bit cloudy out there, but some nice skies.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah, I'm supposed to say we can put the sunglasses back in the case.

We won't need them until Saturday and Sunday, but a beautiful weekend to hand.

So that's the good news before I get to the bad news this weekend.

Gorgeous sunshine, temperatures in the low 60s, feeling comfortable, nothing to worry

about.

I love it, love it, love it.

But today, everybody's trying to head to Wisconsin, right, for the NFL draft, mother

nature who wants to head to the draft, too.

Go figure.

So much football.

Even she's interested in the draft.

Oh, my gosh.

It's so good.

Yeah, no, right.

So she wants to try to dampen it a little bit.

But what we're looking at is actually some scattered showers right now, pretty much north

of us and south of us.

We're staying away from them at the moment.

We could see a few sprinkles possible this afternoon, but I think it's highly unlikely.

Mostly just cloudy skies, mild temperatures.

We're going to make it to the mid 60s today, so still hanging on to a little bit of the

heat.

Not quite as nice as yesterday.

But the low pressure system does start to move in overnight.

I think that's our best chance for us in scattered showers, maybe some rumble of

thunder overnight, nothing will be stronger, severe, no worries on that.

But it will start to get breezy and colder as the system moves in.

We're going to have that rain-cooled air.

We'll be waking up Friday to patchy fog, light rain, and cooler temperatures, winds

will be gusting out of the north, and highs will be stuck to the low 50s, probably feeling

more like the 40s.

So we're going to need a jacket tomorrow, a umbrella in the morning, the rain winds

down by the afternoon, and then sunshine, all nice, comfortable, gorgeous weekend.

Nice.

So tomorrow we just pretend we're in London for the morning.

Yes.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And our visitors here to Wisconsin get a little taste of what it's like to be in Wisconsin.

Exactly.

A little bit of everything.

A little bit of everything.

Why don't you guys have a dome before I let you go, Brittany.

I have to point this out and I don't think I do this nearly enough.

That's on me.

Brittany could come on here and give us the temps and the wind conditions and some of these

things and then leave, and that would be perfectly fine.

It should be doing her job better than most.

But she gives us a story and energy, and I just cannot tell you how much I love it and

when a perfect start to our show with us, Brittany, we appreciate you.

Thank you so much.

You guys are the best.

I appreciate that.

You know, weather is my passion and it is a story.

She's got a story to tell.

I love that.

It does come across.

Yes.

You're passionate for weather.

It does.

And it is.

She is the Vinn Scully of weather.

She really is.

I praise.

I praise.

We appreciate you, Brittany.

Have a good morning.

You're the best.

Talk soon.

We have some fun lined up for you today, everybody.

We're going to get into some really cool things.

Like, did you know you could trick AI?

Really?

Yeah.

You mean our overlords can be tricked?

It's funny.

You know, they're supposed to be ruling us soon, so I guess we can find ways to combat

that.

They just, they to figure out a talk to text and a spell check if they can figure those

out.

Boy, those AI overlords.

They have us.

We got four ways.

You're mowing your lawn wrong.

Oh, we can see.

Getting ready for no mome.

We can get, you know, get you ready for that.

That's okay.

All right.

And got a couple of other ones.

Of course, it's a Thursday.

It's like, you know, what we're going to do?

We're going to kick things off with our pet of the week with the news and our friends

from the Southwark County Humane Society.

Can we shout out to Milltown Coffee?

Yes.

Very much.

Opening soon.

Opening soon.

Cannot wait.

Gotta get over there.

We got to get a coffee sponsor.

We got to get like a coffee shop.

Yeah.

We just got to do that.

And love that love of our coffee shops around here.

We do appreciate them supporting one of our favorite nonprofits in this area and our good

friends at the Humane Society.

Also in the nine o'clock hour, Seth got some, Seth and I got some entertainment news for

you.

Okay.

You won the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame fan vote.

Oh.

Cool.

Got a new concert, a new festival coming up, Ride Fest.

This celebrating it's 20th year.

We'll talk about that.

Who's going to be headlining?

All right.

And we have the world's most beautiful person according to people magazine.

No, boy.

All that coming up.

Plus, what are examples of, quote, being picked last in gym class as an adult?

I cannot wait to do that.

This one's going to be fun.

I might with you on that.

I can't wait to see.

That's going to be an interesting one.

But we start right here.

April is National Distracted Driver Awareness Month.

Oh, okay.

And in a new report, 86% of drivers admit to being distracted by technology using their

phones, but that isn't the only thing keeping our focus off the road.

I hear some other ones and I admit that I came into driving later in life and especially

just even long before I had a phobia and everything with it, just being a city kid.

You just didn't really think about driving that much.

You had a lot more public transportation to get around.

Yeah.

But the L train.

You've got, you know, Amtrak.

Buses.

Yeah.

Taxis even.

Yeah.

So I didn't even really think about riding a bike until I was out here and being here

so little on driving or anything.

But I don't really, I don't do, I don't get distracted driving really.

I get distracted by other drivers.

My phone, it's set to decide, it's silent and it's even in an emergency.

The only time I'm really worried about that is if I'm driving long distances, which I

don't do that much to be getting to be honest.

Right.

So all these factors being put in there because I actually find other people more distracting

and other drivers more distracting than anything in my vehicle.

Like in the car.

Right.

Yeah.

Yeah.

To me, that's the approach I'm taking.

I immediately come into it with, but there's certainly plenty of distractions.

Oh, yes.

And there always have been.

Right.

I mean, we can talk about billboards.

We can talk about, you know, radio ads, even the honest, just having the radio on can

be a distraction.

That's right.

Yeah.

So I talk and I mention all this because I think that's the only way we really get this

better is owning this stuff.

Right.

Nothing ever gets accomplished by doubling down or ignoring something or, you know, just

lying about it.

Right.

Well, the first thing to solving your problem is admitting that you have a problem.

Yeah.

So let's go ahead.

So here are some of the other things people cop to doing, like getting ready while driving.

27% of drivers admit to working on their appearance while driving.

That's changing clothes, shaving, putting on makeup or painting their nails.

Oh my god.

And among Gen Zers, that number jumps to 50%.

Oh, no.

That's not good.

No.

That is not good.

No.

Yeah.

And this is a thing now where, how do you solve that?

Because I don't think that the approach that we've done for years is working.

Again, Gen Zers fit up to 50%.

Right.

So they're not either, they're not being taught the correct stuff here or they're just

always late.

I don't know.

I think one of the ways that you get around that is what you just said there.

And giving maybe a little more time or trying to really encourage the whole leaving

earlier for work.

Right.

Right.

Okay.

Yeah.

You may do it a thousand times and be fine.

But that one time could be, you know, thinking of getting in any kind of accident.

How much?

Even a fender bender.

Time.

You know, money, effort.

It takes all of that, consider being in a major accident.

You could die.

I mean, there's always that.

But there's all the other stuff that come, and only once happening one time can totally

turn your life upside down.

And that's just, you know, we're just talking about you in the car, not even the other

people that you could purge or anything like that.

You're conscious, handle that.

Yeah.

Yeah.

You talk to anybody who has caused an accident, and I don't know.

I don't know.

Anybody that has done that that has really lived with it well.

Right.

So unless you're like a psychopath, but yeah, that's a different kind of, yeah, we got

to.

No, I don't think that we're, our ratings are that great in the psychopath community.

I think we're so, I think I don't think they're probably, well, they need help.

They need help.

First of all, we ought them to get the help they need.

We'll put that in.

Yes.

There you go.

Eating while driving isn't just snacking, a whopping 72% of people who eat while driving

admit that they've tried some risky meals, like eating barbecue ribs or a bowl of hot

soup.

What?

Eating soup while you're driving?

No.

So I put these two cat, these two groups of people in the same group of people of people

who are shaving while they're driving.

They're helpless.

You are?

I know I'm not supposed to say that, but what the what, man, like there's certain things in

life.

We've got to just be able to face and be like the person doing it and the person reacting

to it.

Both have to be like, what the what?

What is going on?

You can't, and you cannot tell me you don't know that's dangerous.

You cannot.

I'm sorry.

You cannot use ignorance.

I don't know.

I'm eating soup while I'm driving.

I can have the house completely to myself, a fresh razor, all set, all the time in the

world, and it's still dangerous to me to shave, you're taking a razor to your face among

other things.

A lot safer now than it used to be, but still, it's a razor, but it's still.

The eating thing, like the bowl of soup, if I see somebody shaving or eating ribs or

drinking or eating soup while I'm driving, I'm looking for a camera.

I'm looking for like, okay, well, this is a bit.

This can't be real, and if it is, I swear on everything I am.

If I'm at a stop sign and I see this, I am getting out of my vehicle.

I am knocking on the window, and I got to, I just got to ask like, why?

Why?

I know.

I know, hold up.

Wait a second, everybody.

I got this guy's eating soup.

I got to get some answers.

I know, right?

I got to get some answers.

You hear me?

All right.

So what's up, man?

Not a doughnut.

Yeah, not something.

I'm telling you, or if you have soup, like put it in a cup and drink it with a straw or

something that they can save for out of care, spoon it in a bowl of soup, what are you

doing?

I'm telling you.

I'm telling you.

This is just, I don't know.

Then there's this one that's, this is really good.

If you were to aggravate it before, creating content while driving.

What?

74% of people say that the most embarrassing distraction is filming videos or creating

social media content while driving.

Oh my goodness.

No.

No.

In fact, if you're trying to have a meeting, like a Zoom call, I think that is probably, that's

got to be super distracting too.

I'm going to be honest.

We have this in our own company, and I've seen it in my other work and other jobs that

I do and everything.

When I see people doing it, if they're stopped, it's completely, if they're just in

their car.

I've got no issue with that.

Well, no, there are cars or oftentimes our second office, you know, so I got no problem

with that.

But if they're driving and they're in a meeting, if I was, I'm not in charge, I don't

have any kind of power.

But if I did, I would stop the meeting and tell them, hey, you can get the notes later.

They'll pull over.

Or pull over.

Yes.

Pull over somewhere and stop.

There is no meeting in human history that is worth that.

Just like there's no set of ribs that are worth it or shaving that needs to be done that's

worth it.

Look a little shaggy.

You'll be fine.

You'll be on the list.

Stress and anxiety.

20% of drivers say stress from work or school or relationship issues can mess with their

focus behind the wheel.

That one I will comp to.

Right.

That's hard.

Certainly.

I certainly admit to that.

I mean, again, you know, it's one of those things that it can be, can be, can be getting

missed, can come and go.

I used to have, for most of my life, I've had long commutes.

This is like the shortest commute I've ever had working here.

And it's one of those things, you know, you get off a tough day and you have a long drive.

And then you realize you've gone a stretch of highway and you don't remember going that

stretch because your mind is so full.

And so I can comp to that because that has happened to me before.

And I feel like, oh my God, like I was like, it's like you know, you were, you know, watching

the road and stuff.

But it's still, it feels weird because you're like, oh, what if something had happened,

you know, that kind of thing.

So yeah, I totally understand that one.

The report also includes map of distracted driving hotspots throughout the country and

the most distracted states are in the Southwest, like California, Arizona, New Mexico, Texas,

Nevada, Utah, and Colorado.

Florida, North Carolina, Michigan, and Connecticut are also danger zones, danger zone.

The rest of the South is get sleep, everybody.

The rest of the South is somewhat dangerous up to West Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.

The areas with low levels of distracted driving are in the Northwest, Northeast, and

including New York State.

You also have the same thing I was talking about with Chicago in New York, a lot less drivers.

Yeah.

Very, very few New Yorkers own their own vehicle.

Right.

If you live in the city, the chances are you do not own a car.

Most of the people, the cars you see there are people who live are coming into town or

something like that.

Yeah.

Everybody that I know in New York, they do, they make a choice.

Either own a vehicle or own an apartment because you can't do both.

No.

I mean, because you, for parking, forget it, I mean, forget it unless you're super rich.

Yeah.

Yeah.

And the safest states are unless populated in Middle America, including Montana, Wyoming,

both Dakotas and Minnesota.

Main of Ramana are also rated as safe.

Okay.

I was trying to see where it was.

It dispute the North Dakota one.

Yeah.

Yeah.

I live there, man.

There's some distracted drivers out there because they don't think anyone else is out of

the road.

That's why.

That's, yeah.

That's.

So where Minnesota is considered in the safest regard and it's interesting to look at the map

of how much the Northeast and, you know,

right?

Yeah.

Central and Northeast.

But Illinois and Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin are all considered low.

Mm-hmm.

So those are positive.

That's good stuff.

Yeah.

Exactly.

And then the part of this that I have to wrap on and I don't, I know that I get, this

is hit or miss too.

And I know that 50-50 will feel or differently on this one or agree with what I'm saying

here.

But I have to remind everybody, I feel like I don't have to.

I'm just echoing this.

Driving is not a birthright.

Right.

It's a privilege.

It is.

Like, it can be taken.

It can, and it can be gone.

And with that, your independence and so many other things that you value about driving.

So show that you value driving.

Yeah.

Show that you appreciate it.

Show that you give a darn about other people.

It's not that hard.

Right.

I can do it.

This is one of those few things that is almost total personal responsibility on your

part.

Now, if someone else hits you, I mean, you obviously have no control over that.

But if you're the one, I mean, this is something where you have to prove that you can do

it.

And as soon as you can't, then like, they're going to take it away, like you said.

I don't think that there should be any driverless vehicles on the road.

I don't, not a one.

I don't think we've, we've mastered the technology.

No, we have not.

No.

And on top of that, I don't think we've earned it.

Probably not.

We haven't earned flying cars.

We haven't even earned hoverboards.

Oh, God, that's terrifying now that I think about it.

And that's saying, I'm part of that.

I'm not, I'm not pointing my finger at it.

I'm a part of society.

I'm a part of people.

We've all had moments in driving where we've lucky, you know, close calls, lucky things.

You know, I'm telling you.

Yes.

I, I, to me, you know, back to the future is a great movie, but it's a movie, like,

you know, I mean, I, I don't know that we're necessarily ready for that yet.

Um, I mean, no, you're right.

We've never been ready for the law.

We're ready for the law.

We do need more vehicles with the suicide, with the doors to fly up the wing, the

galling doors, the galling doors, just the fancy cars to get to do that.

I would like you're just here, like a, just a hatchback that, you know, are a

rental in or something that has the cool doors opening.

How about ones that go down and you walk you up into it, you see a ramp?

Yeah.

I think a little, yeah.

Like, um, yeah.

First of the tiny car that doesn't make any sense to me, you know, it brings a little

pizzazz to the back.

We'll be back with more pizzazz and, uh, Misty's Medi-Burt, I, oh, it didn't, I knew

it was going to do it.

That's my favorite day at anniversary club.

Flash from the past.

See where I get going.

I get going.

We'll be back with more show coming up, Morty Show and WFHR.

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I'm on the joy of winning.

We were prepared to see this celebration when I'm about to start.

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They do.

I think you were saying that.

They do an excellent job with it too.

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Oh, yeah.

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Yes indeed.

Need a one through three from you Seth.

Oh, wow.

That's right.

Three.

I don't do that a lot.

I don't feel like we get threes very often.

No, we don't.

Let's take two or four or something like that.

Yeah.

First up, we should happy birthday to Brooke Anderson.

Happy birthday, Brooke.

By the day Brooke, we're wishing you a good one indeed.

And a very happy birthday to Jesse Brandon.

Happy birthday, Jesse.

Enjoy the day, Jesse, wishing you the rest of days.

Yes.

And our qualifier today, Joe Novak, Joe, happy birthday.

Enjoy the day, Joe.

Wish you the best of the day.

Like I just like saying the word.

It's a great name.

Joe's a great name.

I'll be going, Joe.

Yeah.

Love that name.

Enjoy the day, Joe.

Yeah.

Yeah.

It's a good one.

We take a look at who you're sharing your birthday with, ah, all you local celebs who

we got here.

First up, Joe Kiri, 33 for him.

Real breakout role as Steve Harrington and Stranger Things.

Oh, yes.

Okay.

Yes.

One of those things that, to me as an actor, I would, one of the things I would love about

being a part of a TV show that gets a chance to be on for five seasons and your characters

arc and grow.

Right.

Where his character started out is the kind of like the, the jerk kid or a older brother kind

of sort of stuff and everything.

And, you know, given the opportunity and, and certainly the writers and the cast are

the crew, the writers and the director are seeing something in him and like, oh, we've

got to give him more lines.

We've got to create this a bigger character, right?

His character, I don't believe from what I've understood from the dust brothers or whatever,

was ever supposed to really be much.

In fact, they didn't really have him in many episodes or anything early on in the process

like this guy's got some charisma.

He's got something to him.

He's good.

Yes.

Great hair, too.

Yes.

Fabulous, too good.

Yeah.

33 though.

I did.

He looks a lot younger than that, doesn't he?

Yeah.

Hang on to that, man.

Yeah, no kidding.

Carly's can't.

Carly Pierce is 35.

A good one.

Yeah.

A couple of singers here actually.

Yeah.

Carly Pierce is 35.

Tyson Ritter is 41 lead singer of the All American Rejects and Kelly Clarkson is 43.

Wow.

Really?

He's only 43.

Yeah.

That's another one that surprised me.

The opposite way.

I know she was really young when she was on American Island.

My goodness.

Yeah.

Um, I would say to me, that would, I don't know ratings wise.

I don't know by actual American Idol fans.

They would know way better than I would.

Right.

But that seemed like in still to this day, the most competitive and most popular season

of American Idol with her and the curly hair kid Justin, Justin.

Yeah.

I mean, even I know that is because of that horrible, that's a horrible movie.

They made about it.

That movie.

That moved Justin to Kelly.

And on that note, that movie was so bad.

It's still considered as one of the top five worst movies ever made.

Yes.

Floyd Careers, including his, but she has still been able to somehow, somehow she was

able to, to weather the storm, man.

I cannot express how remarkable it is when people survive a crash like that.

Yes.

No matter what their job is in the industry, when they continue to have work, it's so difficult

in any age, let alone since the early 2000s.

If you get a black mark on your crew, look what happened to Will Smith.

And long before the slap incident, right?

The Wild Wild West, he was Mr. Fourth of July.

Oh my God.

Wild Wild West crashes and he's struggling for years to get back to where he was.

And it has to go a whole different route, actually, where he's doing the pursuit of happiness

and some things like that.

It's, to bounce back from that, I give Kelly Clarkson a like, and it's a great, it also

to her talent.

She's talent.

For sure.

I mean, she's got a fabulous voice.

She also pivoted a bit and went from music to the talk show circuit and a lot of that.

And she's done quite well, actually.

Which is done.

Yeah.

Let's see here.

Rebecca Medar is 48, the Wicked Witch on Once Upon a Time.

She was also a Charlotte in Lost.

I remember watching Once Upon a Time for a couple of seasons and then it got too wonky.

But anyway, other than that, the first couple of seasons were good.

But I've heard that anybody I know that watched that show.

That's what they said.

It got really weird.

Yeah.

Let's see here.

Rory McCann is 56.

You know him better as the hound in Game of Thrones, solid actor.

I've seen him in a couple of things.

He's good.

So I had read the books, at least up to a certain point of Game of Thrones stuff.

And that was one character.

I'm like, wow, if they ever make this and anything, that's going to be a hard character

to cast.

Boy, did they knock it out of the park?

He was good.

Ud.

I really did keep watching that show.

I mean, from the second episode on pretty much for the next six, seven seasons, because

of guys like him.

Just because of the actress they got lost.

Yeah.

Macy Williams, the Ariana.

I really, really enjoyed them to the point where I just, when there were things that made

no sense or I didn't like them or anything, I just ignored it.

I was like, I don't care.

I really don't.

I didn't.

No, just watching that acting was great because they had such a really, I mean, and that

Pedro Pescal and all these guys who got their start on that show, you know?

Oh my gosh.

A couple of other great performers here.

In fact, one's so good.

He put it in his name.

Cedric, the entertainer is 61.

You really got to be good to be called yourself the entertainer.

He did that to himself.

And he backs it up.

He is very good.

He's very, very good.

He's very good.

One of those guys, actually though, that I think that as big as he is and his name and

everything, recognition, a lot of the great career he's had, I always, I feel like he could

have been bigger.

If he'd been given more up, not on him, I feel like he, if had he gotten more opportunities,

he's another one of those Wayne Brady's to me where we never got to see their full potential.

We never got to see them at a 10 or anything.

They've had great careers, very well established, very well respected, but not very well thought.

Similar, but maybe not as needed from the actor himself.

D'Eman Hussin is 61.

Recently, you might remember him as the Wizard in Shazam or Fisherman King in the Aqua, Aqua

Man movies or Karath in both Guardians of the Galaxy movies in Captain Marvel.

G-man Hussan is, I say, Hussu, Hussu, Hussu, yeah, right, Gladiator Blood Diamond, Furious

Seven Arm, wasn't he an Armistead?

I think that's where he got his, that was his big break, yes.

Yeah, he is so darn good actor, so darn good.

My favorite role of his, and it's such, it's not that great of a movie, but man, I can't

hop as, it's one of those ones that's on and I stop every time Constantine.

Oh my gosh, he's, he's Papa Midnight in Constantine, and him and Keanu Reeves are so dang

good together.

And he just looks like he's having so much fun in the role.

Every time I see him, he's so dedicated, so driven, and usually one of the best parts

in any movie to me.

But in that movie, he looks like he's having some fun, and I don't know, there's some

about that.

That's good, yeah.

I like that.

I love it.

He's great, I love him.

Doug Clifford is 80, drummer, original drummer of Creedence Clearwater Revival.

Oh wow, yes.

What's the name I haven't heard in a while?

He's the Cosmo from the Creedence album Cosmos Factory.

Okay.

That's interesting.

So that was his nickname, I love it.

One of the most well-known entertainers of her era of her time, the Diva, Barbara Streisand

is 83.

I see Diva with respect, not, you know, not, and no shame, although that, also applies.

Thank you.

It's true.

There was a little bit of a, both in that one.

Yeah.

But there's no denying her talent.

I mean, right.

She's a very talented individual.

And her mark in, in her legacy is set.

Yeah.

Oh, yeah.

And the great, the wonderful, the legend Shirley McClain is 91 today, and man, that feels

good to say.

Oscar winner, Terms of Endearment.

She was also the first lady in a guarding test, which is not a great movie, but she,

her and Nicholas Cage, young Nick Cage, who was really playing down, really playing

down.

And Shirley McClain is actually the one that's a little more, you know, energy-wise,

not a nine or a ten or whatever.

For one, shows Nicholas Cage's great acting ability, and the thing that I think is most

underrated about him.

For all the attention on his energy, he's trying to bring all the other actors energy

up too.

He is a great co-actor.

He is a great teammate.

He made.

Nobody that has ever worked with Nicholas Cage has ever complained.

You know, for his, it's really stunning when you think about how long his career is,

and some of the things that he's, you know, taken heat for.

More of his personal life than anything, not the way he was on set.

And never forget he's a copula, and he gets the history of this business.

So when he's working with the Shirley McClain, he takes, you know, he plays to

her.

And I think that's really impressive in that movie.

Terms of endearment is some of the best acting you will ever see, not just from her, but

from the whole cast.

The whole cast has good in that one.

I get goose bumps thinking about her performance, and I have an earlier one from her career,

a musical.

Irma LaDuce is a fantastic movie, and I'm going to apologize in advance.

She is smoking hot in that movie.

Oh my lord.

My Aunt Pat loved that movie, and I didn't know that it was an older movie when I first

saw it.

I just remember having such a, yeah, such a crush, she's, she's, she's looking good in

that movie.

Beautiful woman.

And just as beautiful of a person, an actor, happy 91st, Shirley McClain, a happy birthday

and anniversary to everybody out there celebrating.

Can't think of a better way than celebrating with our friends at El Caffe get there today.

Everybody enjoy some great stuff over at El Caffe.

Take a news, sports, and partner break will be back with more show coming up on Mornings

at WFHR.

Welcome back everybody.

Mornings at WFHR, locally grown radio, Seth and James hanging out with you.

Hope you're having a good one out there.

Almost gave the time.

937 on the clock.

I don't know why I almost did that.

That's okay.

You can do that.

There's no problem with that.

I like doing that, but it kind of got a, it kind of went away out of radio for a while.

There's like, it's really, it used to be, that's how you started your segments.

We got clocks everywhere now, that's the thing, you know, on our phones, on our wrists,

still, and, and, and everywhere, yeah.

We got, that everywhere, we got technology everywhere.

And it seems like every five seconds or every other article seems to mention AI and artificial

intelligence.

The majority of those articles seem to go to an artificial intelligence that we need,

you know, be afraid of, or it's going to take over, or the extreme circumstance, the

terminator.

Right.

Yeah.

SkyNet.

We're all worried about that.

SkyNet.

Can't we just agree that if some company, you know, starts up, hey, there's this new up

and starting company in Silicon Valley called SkyNet.

No.

So we close that down, we shut that down right away.

You got to change your name.

You can't be SkyNet.

I also love the idea of a company just out of nowhere, like they have no idea what the

terminator is.

They're like, hey, I got this cool name, SkyNet.

Oh, that's a really good name.

We should go with that.

Everyone's horrified, yeah.

So someone on threads has figured out that you can type any nonsensical phrase into the

Googler and add the word meaning into the end.

The AI overview will define it for you as if it's something real.

What?

For example, someone Googled this made up piece of quote, wisdom quote, you, you can't

lick a badger twice with meaning.

And Google AI said, the idiom you can't lick a badger twice means that you can't trick

or deceive someone a second time after they've been tricked once.

It's a warning that if someone has already been deceived, they're unlikely to fall for

it again.

So it's not a real phrase.

It's nothing people don't use that.

It was just me it made up, but the Google AI doesn't know that.

So it just turned it into something.

It's because it's, of course, we understand how they get the information, you know, it's

scraped from many, many sources.

And so it put together like twice, you know, so we do have idioms for that, right?

You know, fool me twice, you know, that kind of, you know, fool me once, you know, that's

on you fool me twice, that's on me.

So I'm guessing it drew from stuff like that.

I don't remember anything about badgers, though.

Is there any sayings at all that have badgers enough?

There should be.

There should be.

We should create a beer.

Maybe we should.

Yeah.

It makes sense in Wisconsin, right?

Yeah.

Because there's two segue points I got to get to real quick here.

One, we got some Southern listeners, a shout out to everyone of them, love the South.

My favorite accent probably is the Southern accent.

And my favorite accent to do is the Southern accent.

I say this with every bit of love and respect I can that if these are not phrases in the

South.

We have just created that.

Maybe they should be.

They should be.

They should be.

And is anybody else doing this because I got another phrase I'm going to say, too?

And when I say these phrases, are you hearing a Southern accent when I say that?

Let's do it.

Because never throw your poodle at a pig.

Yeah, totally.

You never want to throw your poodle at a pig.

Because it's down to that.

So someone tried this one.

That's what we kind of hate to say that.

Never throw your poodle at a pig.

And I said, this proverb is a humorous way of saying, don't waste good things on someone

who won't appreciate them or might be angered by them.

Okay.

Pearls before swine, sounds similar to that.

And I wonder if that's what they're drawing from, oh my goodness.

Yeah.

I want to see people to try to actually make these happen like become idioms, right?

Yeah.

That's one of those ones that, again, going to the South, I think you run into if you're

not a southerner a lot where you'll hear phrases that they nobody's blinking an eye.

They heard it their whole life, but you're like, wait a minute, what did they just say?

You cannot run a turtle.

What are you talking about?

What is that?

What does that mean?

And the way my brain works with idioms where I can't hear one and not want to know where

it came from.

Wonder what?

Why did that come?

I went a little crazy in the South with that.

So another one here, you push the envelope, we'll lick the stamp.

Where did you AI implies a sense of a resignation and willingness to do the necessary task without

overcome committing?

See now, I don't get that from that kind of a thing.

I don't know, man.

I don't know.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Issues.

Yeah.

Issues people.

As fun as this is, there's some concern.

One commenter said, these are very funny, but it's a warning sign that one of the key functions

of Googling, like the ability to fact check, a quote, verify a source or track down something

half remembered, will get so much harder if AI prefers to legitimate, statistical, statistical

possibilities over actual truth.

Right.

Right.

Right.

Even if you don't understand a word, I just said you get what the meaning is.

Right.

Don't use, basically.

Don't use chat GBT as your search engine or your fact checker because you're going to

get stuff like this.

There's so many examples out there of this happening.

Yes.

I, I've been a little like blunt, like this is something I did because I, I'll wholeheartedly

emit chat GBT, any of the versions of it that every single one of these site skews,

I don't use a bit of it.

Right.

I don't need any of it.

Teach the wrong.

If it works for you, more power to you.

Yeah.

Right.

I just don't at for one on a, on a, on a creative level.

I can't do it.

I literally can't do it, which is understandable.

Yeah.

I was looking through notes from high school of mine and I saw something I liked and was

going to include it and didn't because I felt like I was stealing from this person.

Who was me in high school?

No, no self plagiarizing, so let alone AI or anything like that.

And to me as a creative, the biggest insult, the biggest black mark you can have on your

career, on your legacy is being a plagiarizer, stealing somebody's ideas, any of this kind

of stuff.

It's bigger in the comedian world and that's maybe where a little my sensitivity goes

because of so many friends I have in that, but exactly.

The thing that I, the thing that I, I, I focus on when it comes to the concern of this

and everything is more so the unknown.

I think that that can be a bit concerning when it comes to facts and some of that.

But I'm blown away by the people that will use Chatchy PT for fact checking.

I never would have thought of that.

That doesn't make any darn sense to me.

No, it doesn't because it's limited to the information we have already.

So this is the thing.

This is why calling it AI is not really true because it's only as good as the information

it has already.

You know, it can use that information in different ways than we would, which is why it

can be useful, but there's certain things it cannot do.

And maybe we don't want it to do kind of thing too.

That's the other thing.

I mean, what's the ethical?

I mean, this is all new stuff.

You know, we're still trying to figure all this stuff out.

But I mean, where it is right now, it's very simple actually.

It can only bring the information out that it has already obtained and we have incomplete

knowledge.

We'll never have all the knowledge, right?

Yeah.

Just what we've already put out there.

Once Chatchy PT can change a tire or do some of those things, you know, then I'll start

looking at AI a little.

Interesting, right?

But right now.

Robot tire change.

For everybody that wants to worry about the terminator or something, go ahead and look

up one of these like walking like a robot things that they have where they're not even

built like a human.

They're like more like a dog or some kind of weird animal.

Yes, exactly.

And they tip and they fall over.

I mean, you know, what are we worried about here?

I mean, our greatest weapon, gravity, you know, I also remember my conversation from yesterday

in course about the concerns about some technology and how some technology is way too far

ahead of us.

And I don't know that we've really caught up to it yet and I don't know that we really

need a lot of ways, right?

Going back to the driverless cars and some of that.

Exactly.

That's here.

That's because technology is such a big umbrella.

Oh, it is.

It's some of it we're way ahead of.

Right.

And some we haven't caught up to and some were right at the right place.

Right.

Look at your cell phone.

That's a remarkable achievement, isn't it?

I think so.

I think so.

And you just nailed something there, man, that I think we is one thing that we don't do

enough.

We have advanced as human beings so much that we've actually lapped ourselves technology

in a lot of ways.

In a lot of ways, you're right.

We're way ahead of things and there's I think there's, you know, we can do two things

at once.

You can give it a humanity a little bit of credit while also having an eye on things

and making sure, hey, this, you know, keep that down.

We don't need Skyna.

Yep.

We're good.

Slow down.

Slow down.

No Skyna.

What are the greater twists turning that character into a good guy?

Yeah.

That was great.

That was great.

It was pretty good.

We'll give you that one, Cameron.

Give me that one, Cameron.

We'll give you that one, Cameron.

Yeah, we'll be back more show.

Welcome back, everybody.

Morning's here at WFHR.

Locally grown radio.

Thanks for joining us in this new time slot.

We appreciate you.

We will be being joined next hour by a great friend Denise in the South of County of

Maine Society's pet of week.

Excellent.

Looking forward to that.

Yes, indeed.

The spoiler alert might have some tickets to give away at the end of this hour.

Next hour.

Next hour.

Be listening for that.

Be listening for that.

Good morning.

A quick reminder as we segue into lawn care and mowing and all of that.

We got this from our good friend mayor, the mayor of Wisconsin Rapids here, that the city

is adopting a resolution designation, no more may.

Once again, yeah.

It's good.

There are a number of designated spots in city property that will be on mode.

And of course, if you see one of those signs, but the signs are not necessary for

non-mowing or anything, and certainly I just speak for myself, appreciate people doing

this.

I think it's important.

I think it's great.

And I also admit that I sit here, you know, every day, usually talking to an ag agent

or somebody in a natural resource edge or something along those lines.

So I really understand the details of this and I encourage other people to why we do this.

It's very important for specific set of pollinators for this time of year that I mean, they're

so important to the ecosystem that it's, yeah, just even just scratching the surface on

this is really, it's not only interesting, but it's very important.

Doing it helps not only the ecosystem, which helps the ag industry, which helps the economy,

which I mean, it's a circle, right?

Yeah.

Do you like money?

Do you like your state having money?

How about food?

Do you like having green around?

Yes.

These are all factors.

Very important.

And doing this and that we appreciate those doing it out there.

Now, no more may does end, of course, and then you've got that lawn to tackle.

Well, lawn mowing season is upon us, but are you doing it correctly?

Here, if you're dad listening to this, is he going to take umbrage at you for doing

that?

I cannot wait to bring this to my father.

Just real quick, when we first moved to this area, you know, dad looking for work and

I was, I was, I was, you know, 13, 12, 13, something like that.

But I back then was in the mode of helping my family.

And so I looked for odd jobs too.

And I mentioned a couple of those here.

You know, I cut a goat's nails and stuff and mills are out and everything.

But lawn, lawn care was the main gig we did, um, especially once my dad made friends

with somebody who owns some properties in this area, um, you know, him and I would take

turns.

I'd make 10 bucks mowing a couple of lines or whatever.

Those, those good money back then, uh, I, I actually don't mind mowing.

Um, I, I put my headphones on and it's one of those times I get to listen to music

and I just go and, and I've done it since I was a kid.

So it's kind of routine, normal, but I have no idea, Seth, if I'm doing it right, um,

I know that I'm doing it right according to my dad.

Well, that's good.

And, and I know, but it's your dad, right?

Yeah, let's find out.

Let's find out.

So number one, always mowing in the same direction.

You probably alternate on each pass and go back and forth.

But that means switching it up every time you mow.

Do each pass the opposite of how you did it last time.

Oh, if you always mow the same patch of grass in the same direction, it trains it to

lean that way.

It's not great for the grass or the soil.

But some people want that baseball field look and I understand that, right?

But you, um, I think this can also be a positive for you.

Say you go diagonal, you know, uh, for the most part.

And then every other couple of weeks or whatever you go, you know, horizontal or something

like that, um, it may not seem like a big deal to you, but it is a huge deal to your

lawn to that grass, to the pollinators.

And it kind of looks like it changes it up the appearance a little bit for you.

That's true.

If you're, if part of your lawn is a visual thing, I'm not going to get, I, um, I don't

get that necessarily, but I'm not going to get mad at Americans who for four or five generations,

we've been taught, hey, if you have a, in order to be considered respectful, you have

to have a nice, proper lawn and you got grass as well, you have to have a white, big

advantage.

It wasn't always the case, by the way, man, it, it, it rarely is the case.

Right.

I think the percentage of Americans at any generation or any point in human history

had that.

Right.

Like we romanticize so much of good Lord, do we?

I mean, for every two people that had it, it's two America's, man, there's about 90,000

people that didn't, um, I, it's, it's well, it's sad and I think it's good, but I think

as far as like the appearance outside of like drastic things or doing anything that's

going to, you know, certainly drive your, your neighbor's crazy or anything like that.

You want to be good neighbor too.

I mean, yeah, have fun with the lawn a little bit, I think, um, starting in the middle,

what the what?

Oh no.

My OCD brink cannot handle this.

Oh no.

It's mostly just if inefficient because you have to move the, your mower around the yard

more, but it's also bad for the grass.

Ideally, you just make, I want to make one pass over each part of your yard and not have

to roll your heavy mower over it again.

Oh, who does?

Who would start in the middle?

That's mind boggling to me.

I, I'm, I'm genuinely dumbfounded, but the idea that I'm going to move my mower to the

middle of the lawn and they're like, yeah, it's a good place to start.

I go to the edge.

I start in the, the far end.

It always, yeah, that seems like it's common set.

I hate using that word, but it's, it seems like common sense to start on the edge, right?

That's what I have always done, but, and so my parents got this hill that is a nightmare

to go up and down.

I'm sure.

I start there because that's when I got the most energy and I'm just going to totally

make sense, right?

And then by the time I'm, I'm getting done, I'm just doing the easy up and down parts

and everything.

I don't know.

I don't know.

Maybe I, maybe shockingly to everybody, the overthinker here has over thought, lawn care,

maybe a little mowing, not even lawn care, mowing.

He gets a pair of scissors and he gets down real close.

Real close.

Right down there and everything.

Got my microscope.

Using the wrong mower for the job, this one I've seen a lot, do you really need a riding

lawn mower?

They're hard to maneuver.

If your yard isn't big enough, the general rule is you only need a riding mower

if you're cutting half an acre or more.

Most people aren't and should stick with a push mower instead.

It's good exercise for you for the first of all, you are so right, it's good exercise.

And I mean, you can get, for that kind of, you know, if you have a smaller lawn, maybe

get an electric, uses less energy, you know, that's also something to think.

I know the cord, because I've used it before, yeah, the cord is kind of annoying, but you

can work around.

That's not that big of a deal.

I will say a caveat to this to me is seniors and people who are, or, you know, mobility